Onesimus
The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds.
Grace [be] with you. Amen. <[Written from Rome to Colossians
by Tychicus and Onesimus.]>...
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.
Amen. <[Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a
servant.]>...
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With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of
you. They shall make known unto you all things which [are
done] here....
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Saint Onesimus (d. ca. 90 AD) (Greek: Ὀνήσιμος, meaning
"useful," also called Onesimus of Byzantium and The Holy
Apostle Onesimus in some Eastern Orthodox churches) was a
slave to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith.
Eventually, Onesimus transgressed against Philemon and fled to
the site of Paul the Apostle's imprisonment (most prob...
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o-nes'-i-mus (Onesimos, literally, "profitable," "helpful"
(Col 4:9; Philem 1:10)):
1. With Paul in Rome:
Onesimus was a slave (Philem 1:16) belonging to Philemon who
was a wealthy citizen of Colosse, and a prominent member of
the church there. Onesimus was still a heathen when he
defrauded his master and ran off from Colosse. He found his
way...
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-A fugitive slave and subsequent convert of Paul
Col 4:9; Phm 1:10...
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(profitable, useful), the name of the servant or slave in
whose behalf Paul wrote the Epistle to Philemon. He was a
native, or certainly an inhabitant, of Colosse. Col 4:9 (A.D.
58.) He fled from his master end escaped to Rome, where he was
led to embrace the gospel through Paul's instrumentality.
After his conversion the most happy and friend...
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useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon
(q.v.) at
Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the
apostle
Paul, who sent him back to his master with the
epistle which
bears his name. In it he beseeches Philemon to
receive his slave
as a "faithful and beloved brother." Paul offers to
pay to
Philemon anything his slave h...
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("profitable".) Philemon's runaway slave, of Colosse
(Colossians 4:9, "one of you"), in whose behalf Paul wrote
the epistle to Philemon: Philemon 1:10-16. Slaves were
numerous in Phrygia, from whence Paul dwells on the relative
duties of masters and slaves (Colossians 3:22; Colossians
4:1). Paul's "son in the faith," begotten spiritually while...
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